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When you are walking down the old streets and ancient lanes of Xian, perhaps you will suddenly find a giant market that sell various kinds of cloth products. This is the biggest cloth market in northwest China nowadays – Wenyi Road Cloth Market, which has a few hundred shops. You can find a lot of fiber, cotton textile and silk products which are for making clothes and beddings. These are usually sold in considerable amount in budget prices.
Although today many people, especially the younger generation, like to buy clothes produced by big brands of very new styles, older people sometimes love home-made clothes, which are woven by them, just as they did in the past. Their younger relatives sometimes will buy new clothes for them, but they feel the degrees of comfort of these cannot match the home-made or tailor-made ones. Therefore the majority of customers in the market are local middle or old age women, who have more time to made clothes at home. However, young women who come here as customers are those do not like their costumes to be copied by others. Except their business dresses, they like to be unique, so they like their dresses to be designed by professional tailors.
Owners who run their cloth shops here are mainly from southern China. Business is always busy and when a brand-new product is arrived, it will be sold out very soon. They are very enthusiastic when dealing with customers. If you want a cheaper price and the shopkeeper deems good for him, you will be offered easily. He and you will become friends. In addition to individual customers, hotels and bedding stores are big purchasers in the cloth market. Wenyi Road Cloth Market can be reached by public bus routes 508, 700, 709, 710, 716, 21 and 23 etc.
The big and modernized market is in the busiest area of downtown Xian, it lies between Dong Da Jie Street and Xiyi Road, of which the two streets are crossed with Tanshi Street. The total construction area of it is about 3,000 square meters. The Subsidiary Foodstuffs Market on Tanshi Street was opened in 1978. It was specially approved by the municipal government to be an outdoor street food market in Xian. At first, this market had stalls which were built with small tables and shanty canopies and the shopping environment was not good. Nowadays it has become a modernly organized foodstuffs market. About 226 stalls are set up with more than 1,500 salespersons. They are engaged in selling seafood products, fresh vegetables, meat and poultry, dried or fresh fruits, and dried green products. Thus it supplies abundant subsidiary foodstuffs for local demand.
The busy market is welcomed by local people and the restaurant owners very much, so it becomes a part of a project concerning the local foodstuff supply reform, which promotes “green, safe and healthy”.
The specious and wide road is located in downtown Xian, you can find lots of mobile phone shops that sell world renowned brands along it. You may feel spoil of choice when you are walking on this street and you want to find some mobile phone products you like. Many phone advertisement boards are erected on the top of shopping mall buildings or on the side walls of them. Some of these advertisements are printed best known actors or actresses who represent the symbols of some famous brands. At here you can find shops that are sole dealers of specific mobile phone brands, such as Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Philips and some well known local phone manufacturers.
Shangpu Road Mobile Phones Market is the best market of its kind in northwestern China today. It provides many great mobile phone products and high quality corresponding accessories – beautiful phone covers, quality batteries and attractive mobile phone hanging strings. Customer services are very good too.